Section 13-29-102 - Legislative findings

The general assembly finds the following:(1) Minority business councils have been created to serve, support and promote minority business interests and minority-owned business entities in Tennessee urban communities;(2) Such councils have enhanced the ability of minority business to procure employment opportunities in each council's respective community; and(3) At present, each council has independent and often duplicative certification procedures and no reciprocity provisions exist between the various councils. Acts 1997, ch. 404, § 2.